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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
defalcate is a verb meaning "appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use". It carries one recorded sense.
appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
“The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for defalcate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.